Re: Garlic clears out heavy metals

"I don't mean to be argumentative, I just offer this one story. And I guess my question to you is do you really know if the people around you are offended and not telling you?"

Well, I don't really think so.  I've been retired for 20 years, and like I said, I am careful not to eat it prior to "social" encounters, though I violate that if I feel a cold coming on.  (I went for 5 years without a cold up until four months ago when I got the worst one I've had in years.  Garlic didn't do a thing for it.  But before my garlic days I averaged three colds a year.)  One time I was trying to see how much garlic I could get down and I did 8 to 10 cloves before bed time, and my brother caught onto it the next day.

My ex works in the world of outdoor biology and worked with a guy who ate garlic constantly and never had a cold nor was he ever sick, and his office workers complained so he decided to stop.  On his field trips he always drank from streams (our Cascades and Olympics can have some nice clear streams) and he never had a problem, but when he quit the garlic he got very sick after drinking out of a stream.  Animals can contaminate the streams more than humans.

I was raised by a mother who abhorred  onions and laughed at Eastern Europeans who not only ate garlic, but put it on their feet when they became ill or caught cold.  (I use chopped garlic in socks on the bottom of my feet when I get a cold and I can taste it within 60 seconds of putting them on.)  So, when I went to Korea for an all expense paid visit thanks to Uncle Sam, I found that every Korean I ever talked to always had garlic on their breath.  I never ever found it the least bit offensive.  I enjoyed the aroma.  So while some people find it offensive, it is strictly a cultural thing and people find it offensive only because they've been programmed to be offended, - it's all in their head.  I just don't worry about it.

As I mentioned before, if you are really worried about the aroma, then there are cold processed garlic pills.  I always have GarliMax on hand if I don't feel I've had enough of the raw.  There is a garlic pill from Japan where the government has invested heavily in garlic and aged garlic research, called Kyolic.  Kyolic has been shown to be as good as regular garlic but it is horribly expensive.